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DxM is a game that gets the Armored Core parts down half way and then flubs the rest. Customization, control and feel are all tremendous. Mission design, unlike the good Armored Core's which are as much puzzles as shoot all the guys missions, is extremely simple and barely varied at all across the length of the campaign. If you've been waiting for the next Armored Core this isn't it but it's also not say, Front Mission Evolved. You could do worse but it's daftly overpriced for what it is.
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Orv posted:daftly overpriced for what it is. See also:90 percent of the Switch game library.
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Thanks for the thoughts. I'm cold on the Arkham games after Arkham Asylum (which was great, but I liked the Predator segments a lot more than the melee combat*), and quite liked Orc Politics Simulator and the sequel. Both're played out though. On the other hand I know The Surge only by name, and vague impressions of the first one being kinda poor. I'll look up the second one, but from Xaris' description it sounds neat. * mostly for the satisfaction of getting down to one poor terrified bastard and toying with him. They have guns and I'm Batman, I'm allowed 
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Pwnstar posted:Fallen Order felt weird to me because I'm seeing my friend Cameron straight up magically put into a game instead of just a video game man that he voices. you're friends with ginger Jedi twink IRL? hmm
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Barry Convex posted:Daemon X Machina (the Switch mecha game released last fall) is coming to PC next week.
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anilEhilated posted:Any idea when they reveal the Humble Choice for the next month? I thought it would be today. First Friday of the month is what I found when I went looking earlier.
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Ciaphas posted:Thanks for the thoughts. I'm cold on the Arkham games after Arkham Asylum (which was great, but I liked the Predator segments a lot more than the melee combat*), and quite liked Orc Politics Simulator and the sequel. Both're played out though. The Surge 2 is definitely better than the first. The combat takes a little getting used to, and targeting can be a little tricky, but once I got it, it felt great. I'd definitely recommend it if you're looking for a tough but fair Soulsborne.
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What is going on right now: https://www.gematsu.com/2020/02/the-wonderful-101-remastered-announced-for-switch-ps4-and-pc-with-kickstarter-campaign "At the base funding goal of $50,000, The Wonderful 101: Remastered will release for Switch, and at $250,000 and $500,000, it will release for PC via Steam and PlayStation 4, respectively. An Xbox One version is not a visible stretch goal, but director Hideki Kamiya suggested that it will be in an interview with Gematsu."
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Feb 3, 2020 21:12
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3 more announcements coming (when? who knows) looks like: https://four.platinumgames.com/
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Cowcaster posted:3 more announcements coming (when? who knows) looks like: https://four.platinumgames.com/ one of these is probably a mobile game (they're on the list of studios supporting Apple Arcade), but I assume the two others will come to PC
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Feb 3, 2020 21:28
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OutOfPrint posted:The Surge 2 is definitely better than the first. The combat takes a little getting used to, and targeting can be a little tricky, but once I got it, it felt great. I'd definitely recommend it if you're looking for a tough but fair Soulsborne. I'll second any recommendation for The Surge 2, and I never even played the first. It's a big, colorful mess of robot limbs and neon swords and crazy parrying. I rolled through the Weeklong Deals again and found some real good stuff people should be playing, like Nova Drift and Brigador. I've got a whole list of recommendations (and a bunch of garbage to point and laugh at) right over here.
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iGestalt posted:What is going on right now:
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Too Shy Guy posted:I'll second any recommendation for The Surge 2, and I never even played the first. It's a big, colorful mess of robot limbs and neon swords and crazy parrying.
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I think I might replay sleeping dogs. I never finished the nightmare in North point dlc, but dang I love how ridiculous the game is. Conroy is the best. Or whoever the non-jackie sidekick is. The surge 2 is good, and available dlc free on gog
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anilEhilated posted:How is that going to work on the PC? Drawing with a mouse is godawful. It's not like you're drawing anything more complex than basic shapes. Lines and circles, not the Mona Lisa.
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Cardiovorax posted:The Surge 2 is to The Surge as Dark Souls is to Demons' Souls, if that helps any. Neither are bad games, but The Surge 2 is just bigger and better in every sense you could reasonably ask for. Personally I think Surge 2 vs Surge 1 is about 50% as much of a catastrophe as Shadow Warrior 2 vs Shadow Warrior 1. Yeah the gameplay is better, in some ways, worse in others. But jesus did they gently caress up everything else. Surge 1 is atmospheric, has character and an actual story. Surge 2 is....a mess. It's still playable and even fun for just the gameplay, but there's just nothing there if you need something other than a decently competent dark souls-ish combat system to keep your attention.
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DatonKallandor posted:Personally I think Surge 2 vs Surge 1 is about 50% as much of a catastrophe as Shadow Warrior 2 vs Shadow Warrior 1. Yeah the gameplay is better, in some ways, worse in others. But jesus did they gently caress up everything else. Surge 1 is atmospheric, has character and an actual story. Surge 2 is....a mess.
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Going by my memory of DS1, Sekiro is pretty linear in comparison, which I consider a good thing. Theme parks over sandboxes personality, me; I find aimless wandering and uncertainty about where to go more annoying than interesting (Breath of the Wild and very, very few other games excepted). How's Surge 2 sit on that scale?
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Ciaphas posted:Going by my memory of DS1, Sekiro is pretty linear in comparison, which I consider a good thing. Theme parks over sandboxes personality, me; I find aimless wandering and uncertainty about where to go more annoying than interesting (Breath of the Wild and very, very few other games excepted). How's Surge 2 sit on that scale? It sits somewhere in between. It has the looping paths that everyone always screams about in 1 but also those paths tend to just all branch off linear paths from area to area and fight to fight. I was super impressed, even as someone who liked Surge 1, just how much of an improvement Surge 2 is in almost every way, including some good changes that Souls-likes that come after should steal. It is a purely gameplay-driven experience though, the story is for poo poo and the world is relatively boring.
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Cowcaster posted:3 more announcements coming (when? who knows) looks like: https://four.platinumgames.com/ Bayonetta 2 + 3 
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Bayo 2 + 3 are unfortunately extremely unlikely as those were fully funded by Nintendo and Nintendo wants their stuff completely locked down.
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Orv posted:It sits somewhere in between. It has the looping paths that everyone always screams about in 1 but also those paths tend to just all branch off linear paths from area to area and fight to fight. I was super impressed, even as someone who liked Surge 1, just how much of an improvement Surge 2 is in almost every way, including some good changes that Souls-likes that come after should steal. It is a purely gameplay-driven experience though, the story is for poo poo and the world is relatively boring. That doesn't sound like too bad a compromise on the maps I like a good story and interesting setting, but I'm not really bothered by bad or absent ones either; I'm all about the gameplay. That said if it has boring music I'm gonna lose interest faster; weird, but it's been consistently true for me. I can listen to clips of that for myself, though. (hope it doesn't have bad English VA. Like fingernails on the blackboard of my mind, I'd rather have it absent or foreign-to-me)
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anilEhilated posted:How is that going to work on the PC? Drawing with a mouse is godawful.
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DatonKallandor posted:Personally I think Surge 2 vs Surge 1 is about 50% as much of a catastrophe as Shadow Warrior 2 vs Shadow Warrior 1. Yeah the gameplay is better, in some ways, worse in others. But jesus did they gently caress up everything else. Surge 1 is atmospheric, has character and an actual story. Surge 2 is....a mess. It's still playable and even fun for just the gameplay, but there's just nothing there if you need something other than a decently competent dark souls-ish combat system to keep your attention. also it's about the only game from a studio with so many years of experience that fucks up visuals to the point where they constantly hindering gameplay. The Surge 2 has the worst possible lighting and post of the last decade. It was really exhausting to look at most times.
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iGestalt posted:What is going on right now:  that they're making more money on the Kickstarter than the whole of the sales of the original game
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One more on Surge 2 before I shut up. I'm watching the SkillUp review and he really really hates the camera, especially on bosses. And it does look pretty dire compared to Sekiro, where I was never more infuriated than when the drat thing got caught in a corner and I ate Owl's goddamn firecrackers  So is it really that bad in Surge 2?
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iGestalt posted:What is going on right now: quote:Dangen Entertainment is helping us That's kind of a bummer. The game itself doesn't really interest me but I always kind of like following big Kickstarter projects.
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W101 didn't even break 100k sales, did it? Platinum has the worst luck. Anno posted:That's kind of a bummer. Platinum has the absolute worst luck.
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Samuringa posted:W101 didn't even break 100k sales, did it? Platinum has the worst luck. Well it came out like 10 months after the WiiU launched which was definitely a point in time where the console Had No Games. WiiU didn't get great until like September 2016.
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Ciaphas posted:One more on Surge 2 before I shut up. I'm watching the SkillUp review and he really really hates the camera, especially on bosses. And it does look pretty dire compared to Sekiro, where I was never more infuriated than when the drat thing got caught in a corner and I ate Owl's goddamn firecrackers I don't recall any major problems with it but that's of course anecdotal. There are a lot less giant gently caress-off robot bosses that your camera gets stuck on like the first game.
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Guess we'll see how dire it is then, the rest of the game is getting top marks in my brain otherwise That and there's always refunds 
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Propaganda Hour posted:Well it came out like 10 months after the WiiU launched which was definitely a point in time where the console Had No Games. WiiU didn't get great until like September 2016. The WiiU also sold a tenth as much as the Wii did, and an eighth as much as the PS3/Xbox 360. Hell, the PS4 sold more units in 2019 than the WiiU did ever. By about 50 percent. Anything that was a WiiU exclusive and not made by Nintendo was basically doomed.
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Last day of the Europa Universalis 4 humble bundle and I'm still unsure about it.
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drat Dirty Ape posted:Last day of the Europa Universalis 4 humble bundle and I'm still unsure about it. buy the 1$ tier and start playing it. if you still aren't convinced, don't. if you are convinced, buy the rest of it, it should let you upgrade no prob.
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I don't care what anybody says, I loving love that song and this video made me extremely happy 
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Ciaphas posted:One more on Surge 2 before I shut up. I'm watching the SkillUp review and he really really hates the camera, especially on bosses. And it does look pretty dire compared to Sekiro, where I was never more infuriated than when the drat thing got caught in a corner and I ate Owl's goddamn firecrackers I never had an issue with camera. Felt pretty typical.
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Terminally Bored posted:God Hand remaster? Do they have rights for that one? No, Capcom owns that (and it was before Platinum was formed).
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